From 6287177169c10d7063836fafd2f4aaf9f69421fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Victor Stinner Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 14:43:14 +0200 Subject: Issue #27350: Document compact dict memory usage --- Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst index dee400e..eb57f15 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst @@ -488,6 +488,8 @@ Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are: * :func:`dict` now uses a "compact" representation `pioneered by PyPy `_. + The memory usage of the new :func:`dict` is between 20% and 25% smaller + compared to Python 3.5. :pep:`468` (Preserving the order of ``**kwargs`` in a function.) is implemented by this. The order-preserving aspect of this new implementation is considered an implementation detail and should -- cgit v0.12